Lindsay Blanton announced that the Live Audio portion of Radio Reference is being moved to a new entity called Broadcastify on 10/15/2012. This sounds like the perfect move to me as it brings the community back to Radio Reference as a reference source as it was back in the trunkedradio.net days and not an audio provider/reference.

Update: Broadcast Launch is a soft launch on Oct 16 and/or Oct 17, which entails feeds on both RadioReference and Broadcastify in parallel, allowing for a more smooth transition per this post.

With the move of the live audio portion, providers of the scanner audio will no longer be receiving a complimentary premium Radio Reference membership but will be receiving a $6.95/month premium Broadcastify membership at no charge for volunteering their scanners audio for the feeds.

This will allow us to better focus RadioReference.com on it’s core service, to be a reference source. Broadcastify will provide a stand alone entity to focus on the live audio feeds.

It seems there is a few feed providers that are upset about the change as they appear to have only provided a feed to RadioReference.com to defer the $30 a year for a complimentary premium subscriber membership – instead of providing their scanner audio for the sake of the radio hobby, which is sad. A few providers have already cut their feeds, but in my opinion, that just opens up a slot for feed providers that want to volunteer just to volunteer. If you have a scanner and would like to provide audio to the upcoming Broadcastify, read this: Becoming A Feed Provider

As far as I am aware, a feed that is down still has archives available. Keep in mind that archives are only retained for 180 days and you’ll need a Radio Reference/Broadcastify premium subscription as well.